Questions

Happy Sunday!

"Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude. Tell him every detail of your life, then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will make the answers known to you through Jesus Christ."- (Philippians 4:6-7, The Passion Translation).

GOT Questions?  Well, God has answers.  I love how this translation encourages us to "tell him every detail of our life".  Oh, sure, he already knows it all!  But just like telling a therapist or a psychiatrist helps us to work through our issues, telling God all about it helps us too.  

Some of our favorite characters in the Bible had discussions and debates with God.  They asked questions, they made statements.  Do you remember what Elijah said to God?  1 Kings 19:10 says, "I have worked very hard for the Lord God of the heavens; but the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you and torn down your altars and killed your prophets, and ONLY I am left; and now they are trying to kill me too.”(Living Bible).  He really had the audacity to tell God he was the only good guy left!  God taught him a few things, then God said, "And incidentally, there are 7,000 men in Israel who have never bowed to Baal nor kissed him!”(verse 18).  Ouch!

What about Solomon?  He was the wisest man, and even he asked questions, "What exactly do people get out of all their work and all the stresses they put themselves through here under the sun? For every day is filled with pain and every job has its own problems, and there are nights when the mind doesn’t stop and rest. And once again, this is fleeting."(Ecclesiastes 2:22-23, Voice).  Thankfully, after everything he experienced and observed he said, "The last and final word is this: Fear God. Do what he tells you. And that’s it. Eventually God will bring everything that we do out into the open and judge it according to its hidden intent, whether it’s good or evil."(Ecclesiastes 12:13-14).

Love and prayers, Cynthia